You Know You Have PTSD When...

[Chincho]

When you stay up to early morning playing games on your phone because it't keeps you from dreaming.

 

[Ellabella44]

when your T gets that dissapointed look because you say you feel you understand why someone gives up with depression and doesnt survive it.

 

[Ronin]

When you ditched most of your therapists for bringing new trauma.

When 'therapy' is counter to 'survival', and you pat yourself on the back for the time you recognized that. Doesn't mean you give up on healing, or original meanings of therapy.

 

[Anrish]

When you have the feeling to run against walls all day.

 

[Lionheart]

when you put all of the focus on things you cannot control and on your limitations rather than things that free and empower you.

 

[Recovery4Me]

@Lionheart777 Processing versus living our life. :tup:

*When the present still engages night terrors from your past. When you jolt awake wondering what a solid block of sleep feels like and share on the board &/or in your trauma diary when sleep finally occurs!

*When your therapy unleashed new & improved fear-based-driver awareness, just when you thought your were calm-er than a cat in a wet paper bag.

*When normal no longer matters as much as retaining relatively sanity based constructs among the surreal emotional charge from healing.:banghead:

 

[Whyteferret]

When someone complimented you and you look around to see who they're talking to

 

[Deleted member 29920]

Therapy just retraumatises you

 

[Whyteferret]

You're afraid to bring something up to your therapist. Because it's f*ckinf weird.

 

[Bine]

1. When you realized that you shouldn’t appear at the parade, where will be fireworks and noises.
2. When you realized why you shouldn’t go to a noisy party.
3. When you are frightened when strangers come to you for asking help, because you think that they can hurt you.
4. When you can’t sit quite at the transport and look at the window.

 

[ladee]

When you have lost days recently, when you let the dog in and put her food down. The dog stands up then sets back down a number of times. You start getting frustrated with the dog, only to find out you have not unleashed her... Poor dog !!!

 

[Ronin]

When you make random poor birds your pets, because taking care of something living that isn't yourself, you focus on.

Giving yourself the same care is goddamn difficult & couldn't give less of a damn, but those poor creatures remind you you have to.